We had a blast on the drive up. Talking and listening to music and being silly. We were drinking energy drinks so we kept have to stop to use the facilities haha!! At one of the stops, they had paper on the walls of the stalls that you could write on. So we drew the AA triangle on the walls haha.

We found the hotel and parked and had to find the facilities again and some of our friends were there and we felt like we got kind of a cold reception. We thought maybe it was in our head because we hadn't eaten yet so we ran out to the car and had sandwiches. After that we went to a women's panel and that was good.

After that we couldn't find anyone from Tucson. We finally stumbled on a girl who's been in and out of sobriety and she was standing by herself. So we hung out with her for a bit before she went to have dinner.

We still couldn't find anyone so we texted our friend asking where all the Tucson peeps were and he said he didn't know, and was really disappointed with the lack of Tucson unity. In the passed there have been huge groups of us at conferences. We found him in the lobby watching football and sat down for a chat. We just talked about how much the group has changed in the last year. People have moved, people have drank.

It was coming time for the main meeting and I was so excited for my sponsee to see the roll call and the sobriety countdown. But they had done the roll call on Friday.....thats where they say the name of the cities represented and you stand up and cheer. We had no idea why they did it Friday.....not everyone is there by then. The sobriety countdown even lacked energy. The whole conference did. So it was actually kind of a disappointment. It just didn't stack up to other conferences.

On the drive back we got a lot of stepwork done though, so that was cool. And we did help the newcomer at the conference, so that was excellent.

We didn't have to stop at all on the way back so that was good. We left a little after 9pm. We got back in to Tucson a little after 11 and we hear honking and look over and its one of my best friends who couldn't make it to the conference. I hardly ever see her so it was exciting to see her. Long story short, she ended up coming over and we talked until after 1 in the morning!!

So it turned out to be an excellent day even though the conference wasn't what I was expecting.